Alison Erlenbach

As we move into a new year and new decade we have to ask ourselves - are we making progress with repect to curbing climate change? In many ways the answer is positive - the discussion and global awareness of the issue is far greater today then it was 10 years ago.  And although the results [...] - Alison Erlenbach

The noughties saw a major global attitude shift on climate change. Will the next decade herald the turning point for action? - Alison Erlenbach

Congratulations to Aaron Lande - this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week. Aaron works at the US Green Building Council headquarters in Washington DC. Aaron is an Advocacy Associate in the Sustainable Cities Program. In this role Aaron works closley with various organizations - ULI, The Clinton Climate Initiative, and NRDC. The over [...] - Alison Erlenbach

As the new year quickly approaches, it’s a great time to reflect on our accomplishments of the past year, as well as plan our future goals.  How are we going to continue to incorporate sustainable practices into lives?  The United States makes up about five percent of the world’s population, but we use 25 percent [...] - Alison Erlenbach

As we head off to Mammoth California for several days of family skiing I wonder - is there really such a thing as sustainable skiing? I think at some level the answer has to be - no - not really.  Right - bringing thousands upon thousands of people to remote - hard to access mountain slopes [...] - Alison Erlenbach

In the aftermath of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, many environmentalists and world leaders alike are feeling defeated and disillusioned. However, it is little surprise that attempts to draft an international agreement with any clout result in gridlock. What the international community is facing is a classic “tragedy of the commons” problem: it is in [...] - Alison Erlenbach

Here is a great video from Copenhagen - a 100,000 people march!  Makes me wonder…if we can keep the young people involved - the rest will follow. - Alison Erlenbach

We have just met a wonderful photographer - Robert vanWaarden from Denmark.  He has an amazing web site where you can see his work robert vanwaarden photography, and he is being very gracious in allowing us to post a few images of his that he shot over the past few weeks while in Copenhagen. The pictures [...] - Alison Erlenbach

We want to wish all of our friends a very Merry Christmas.  Our family is quite happy to have met so many wonderful people this year as a part of The Climate Community project.  The Christmas season should remind us that family matters, how we treat others matters, that a long time ago…a child was born - [...] - Alison Erlenbach

Congratulations to Erin Viera this week’s Climate Community Citizen of the Week Award Winner. We met Erin this summer as our link to the Jane Goodall organization in Southern California - Roots and Shoots.  Erin has helped us to meet several outstanding young people students and teachers - several of whom have become winners of our. The [...] - Alison Erlenbach

With the Copenhagen meetings over and uncertainty (at best…) about the out come we have to ask - who benefits? A very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal “Copenhagen’s delay is coal-power heyday” gives us a pretty good answer. The quick overview is - the firms who would have seen more regulation - coal burning firms [...] - Alison Erlenbach

Join us at the Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa for a roundtable discussion featuring IT futurist and educator Thornton May and Angelia Herrin from the Harvard Business Review. Enjoy world-class cuisine with fellow education professionals, and learn why making better decisions faster is more important than ever in education. Analytics can help education leaders meet the challenges of a volatile economy, widespread budget cuts, staff shortages and increased competition for scarce resources. While the data accumulates, it is essential to long-term success that education leaders put analytics to work in institutions and districts. - Alison Erlenbach

As the dust settles it is quite clear that the Copenhagen conference was truly disappointing.  The risk that major players - The US, China and others begin a protracted period of finger pointing and arguing is real - and is something that the world can not afford.  We in the US have to try to [...] - Alison Erlenbach

We are very happy to let our followers know that we have become friends with - and are now working together with The Green Girls.com The green girls is the brainchild of its founder and primary driver - Apple Levy.  We have found Apple to be a very bright, high energy lady (wife, and mother…) who [...] - Alison Erlenbach

What a week…… After years of build up and anticipation the world met in Copenhagen and failed to meet its objectives.  The world met to create an agreement, a treaty that would be binding on nation states and require them to reduce emissions of CO2 in some material fashion - within some serious time frame. None of [...] - Alison Erlenbach

Copyright 2009, J. Goldstein, Center Director, National Center for Earth and Space Science Education This was originally posted December 16, 2009 at Blog on the Universe and at Huffington Post. I had a day of meetings on December 16, with no connection to the outside world. When I got home a good friend stopped over and asked if [...] - Alison Erlenbach